Share via

Unemployment across the eurozone hit a new high in April as European Union leaders sounded the alarm over the plight of the Continent’s jobless youth.

Figures by the Eurostat agency showed that unemployment rose for the 24th consecutive month to reach a record rate of 12.2 per cent, up one percentage point from last year.

Another 95,000 people joined dole queues between March and April, taking the total for all ages to 18.3 million people. There was a more pronounced increase in the rate of young people out of work, which rose from 22.6 per cent last April to 24.4